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Emily Baxter Knows We Are All Criminals

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Alum uses stories to push for criminal justice reform: Catch the SEEN exhibit, a collaboration with Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop, through February.

Major Spotlight: Shae Kizima

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A Peer Counselor for English majors, this junior values the faculty feedback she's received in English classes.

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Grad Studies: Textiles and the Cause of Women

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This PhD candidate is researching the intersection of needlework and printing in early twentieth-century Ireland.

Seitu Jones: Art Inspired by Language

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The artist talks about creating public art for the Pillsbury Hall environment.

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New Editing and Publishing Certificate!

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This new recognition of completed coursework and practical experience will give students an edge in career readiness.

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Meet Assistant Professor Rachel Trocchio

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The beauty and peculiarity of Puritan sermons led to this scholar's focus on Early American iterature.

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New Pages Fall 2019

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Oh the places you'll go with a fresh crop of books from faculty and alums!

PhD student Jenna Dreier in red dress in front of full book shelves

Shakespeare Behind Bars

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PhD candidate Jenna Dreier won the prestigious Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for her research on prison performances of Shakespeare plays.

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Grad Studies: War, Citizenship, and Accessibility

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With the help of a GRPP grant, PhD candidate Yon Ji Sol traveled to the UK to do dissertation research and present a paper

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Grad Studies: The Everyday Carnival

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PhD candidate Bomi Jeon explores Black Caribbean cultural identity within colonial spaces.

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January 24, 2020

"Missing Mothers of the Afropocene: Daughters, Madness, and the End of the...

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The Department of English is hosting four candidates for the US literatures and cultures assistant professor search. Megan Finch is a PhD candidate in the English Department at Brandeis...

January 27, 2020

"How Ralph Got His Groove Back: Ellison, Women, and the Underworld"

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The Department of English is hosting four candidates for the US literatures and cultures assistant professor search. I. Augustus Durham holds a PhD in English from Duke University and is...

January 28, 2020

"The Archaeological Impulse: Literary Recovery and Black Feminism"

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The Department of English is hosting four candidates for the US literatures and cultures assistant professor search. SaraEllen Strongman holds a PhD in Africana Studies from the University...

January 30, 2020

"Flesh, Body, and the Uses of the Erotic"

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The Department of English is hosting four candidates for the US literatures and cultures assistant professor search. Briona Jones is a PhD candidate in the English Department at Michigan...

March 19, 2020

CMS Lecture: "Crafting Charisma in the Middle Ages," Dr. Irina Dumitrescu

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March 19, 2020

First Books with Allen, Duffus, Guzmán, and Hwang

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The Creative Writing Program's annual event with debut authors reading and discussing the path to publication. Hear from D. Allen (MFA 2017), author of the poetry collection A Bony...

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